Dukes Quotes

I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.

I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

The bastards murdered half my family.

The guy you see on the screen isn’t really me. I’m Duke Morrison, and I never was and never will be a film personality like JOHN WAYNE . I know him well. I’m one of his closest students. I have to be. I made a living out of him.

Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of European Americans.

You can't have been here long, you haven't got a pot belly.

Do you still throw spears at each other?

The only place where David Duke and I are alike is we are both wizards under the sheets.

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

Jessica's Daisy Dukes are even shorter than Catherine Bach's, which I honestly didn't think was possible.

You managed not to get eaten then?

If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?

You look like you're ready for bed!

Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music!

It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time.

I also was a huge 'Dukes of Hazzard' fan. I used to have T-shirts that said 'Dierks of Hazzard' custom-made.

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison cafeteria wearing Daisy Duke shorts and a Jane Fonda headband.

The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with the annual salary of one thousand florins, and with the title of Philosopher and Principal Mathematicial to His Highness; without the duties of office to perform, but with the most complete leisure; so that I can complete my Treatises.

If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.

[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.

I don't see myself as legendary. If you want a legend, talk about someone like Duke Kahanamoku.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

Down with Dukes of Hazzard!

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

The reason he [Duke Kahanamouku] didn't like me was that I liked him too much.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

I would watch 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on loop. At one point I had 30 televisions in my bedroom and I would watch it over and over.

When the Duke [W.J.C. Scott-Bentinck] died, his heirs found all of the aboveground rooms devoid of furnishings except for one chamber in the middle of which sat the Duke's commode. The main hall was mysteriously floor less. Most of the rooms were painted pink. The one upstairs room in which the Duke had resided was packed to the ceiling with hundreds of green boxes, each of which contained a single dark brown wig. This was, in short, a man worth getting to know.

I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.

Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun," suggested the duke.

Well, at the very beginning of the Amboy Dukes, I was doing background but I never sang my own songs. I would sing them for the guys to show them how I wanted the songs to go, but I always had lead vocalists.

The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.

They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty.

I really wanted to make sure that if we set Duke up, that he's set up the right way and he's his own hero for the right reasons.

JP shouted, "TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER!" "Um," I said. "We kissed," the Duke said. "That's kinda gay," Keun said. "I AM A GIRL." "Yeah, I know, but so is Tobin," Keun said.

Don't cry pretty girl. Who you are is why you're so good at everything. You won't let yourself be otherwise. And thats what fascinates me." Duke- Lament

To get elected as a Democrat, it's hard to be from the city. It's hard to be a graduate of Duke University.

It's been a lifetime of trying to have less beef. Beef comes very naturally to me. I was born with my dukes up, but that's not always necessary anymore. I have to retrain myself.

You always come back to Duke Ellington - he's kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band descending to lots of jazz, actually.

The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.

To this day, The Duke and I remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.